William James Linton

Life
1812-1897; b. London Dec. 7, d. New Haven, Connecticut, Dec. 29; dedicated Chartist who wrote for The Nation as ‘Spartacus’ in hopes of uniting his cause with Young Ireland; emig. USA, 1866; became leading engraver of his age, author of books on engraving; hon. doct. Yale, 1891; his ‘Rhymes’ reprinted in Martin MacDermott’s The New Spirit of the Nation (T. Fisher Unwin, 1894), p.85.

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References
See Chris Morash, The Hungry Voice (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989), p.287.

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